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Hudson Valley’s First and Only Board Game Cafe!

We can be found at the corner of Columbia and 8th Streets in Hudson, NY.

In the mornings (9am during the week and 8am on weekends), we are open for takeout or eat in, with a full breakfast menu and our pour-over coffees and loose leaf teas. Our menu has salads, sandwiches, munchies, and frappes. We recently added a growing selection of wines, beers, ciders, and sakes; along with this, we also launched a dinner menu, and extended our hours through 8pm. Everything is made fresh when you order, so just sit back and enjoy the bright, comfortable, analogue atmosphere.

To sit in and play games, we charge a $5/person cover fee – this will be waived on bills over $45. We also offer takeout all day, and can occasionally deliver to local Hudson businesses – we suggest calling in advance to place your order.

We have regular gaming events, panel discussions, and demos: our calendar is updated often. We also have signup forms so you can tell us when you’d like to come in and meet new people while playing your favorite games!

Every Friday evening, join us for an hour, or for many hours! We invite one and all to come on your own, with a group, or with a new friend, for the sole purpose of playing games (and maybe drinking a sake or two). Our normal, $5/person fee will apply, but it will also get you a soda, coffee, or tea.

We have demos planned, sometimes fun, fast, and easy, sometimes classics like Catan or Carcassonne, and sometimes the heavier games like Terraforming Mars, Energy Empire, or Stone Age.

If you’re new to gaming, or want to bring your own game to demo, this is your time!

For those who aren’t crafty, but want to get their game on, let’s do it!

Every other Monday, while the crafters make things, we’ll also have a game of Sentinels of the Multiverse going. Up to four people at each table, playing as heroes working together to battle the Multiverse’s worst villains in some of the strangest locations! Every session, a different group will work together – will you join us?

Every other Monday, join a group at House Rules Cafe for a session of crafting and discussion on our favorite topics! Be it nerdery, books, movies, local events, national events, or personal events, anything is up for grabs.

All crafting is welcome and encouraged! We’ll put down dropcloths for any potentially messy activity.

Every Friday evening, join us for an hour, or for many hours! We invite one and all to come on your own, with a group, or with a new friend, for the sole purpose of playing games (and maybe drinking a sake or two). Our normal, $5/person fee will apply, but it will also get you a soda, coffee, or tea.

We have demos planned, sometimes fun, fast, and easy, sometimes classics like Catan or Carcassonne, and sometimes the heavier games like Terraforming Mars, Energy Empire, or Stone Age.

If you’re new to gaming, or want to bring your own game to demo, this is your time!

Every Friday evening, join us for an hour, or for many hours! We invite one and all to come on your own, with a group, or with a new friend, for the sole purpose of playing games (and maybe drinking a sake or two). Our normal, $5/person fee will apply, but it will also get you a soda, coffee, or tea.

We have demos planned, sometimes fun, fast, and easy, sometimes classics like Catan or Carcassonne, and sometimes the heavier games like Terraforming Mars, Energy Empire, or Stone Age.

If you’re new to gaming, or want to bring your own game to demo, this is your time!

Every Friday evening, join us for an hour, or for many hours! We invite one and all to come on your own, with a group, or with a new friend, for the sole purpose of playing games (and maybe drinking a sake or two). Our normal, $5/person fee will apply, but it will also get you a soda, coffee, or tea.

We have demos planned, sometimes fun, fast, and easy, sometimes classics like Catan or Carcassonne, and sometimes the heavier games like Terraforming Mars, Energy Empire, or Stone Age.

If you’re new to gaming, or want to bring your own game to demo, this is your time!

The Link Project is honored to bring a screening of BPM (Beats Per Minute) to House Rules Cafe. Former ACT UP members and local Hudson Valley residents Victor Mendolia and Jay Blotcher will join us for a 30 minute talkback. Attendees will receive complimentary drinks and snacks. Space is limited. Please RSVP through Eventbrite.

In Paris in the early 1990s, a group of activists goes to battle for those stricken with HIV/AIDS, taking on sluggish government agencies and major pharmaceutical companies in bold, invasive actions. The organization is ACT UP, and its members, many of them gay and HIV-positive, embrace their mission with a literal life-or-death urgency. Amid rallies, protests, fierce debates and ecstatic dance parties, the newcomer Nathan falls in love with Sean, the group’s radical firebrand, and their passion sparks against the shadow of mortality as the activists fight for a breakthrough. https://youtu.be/VBPdx_iaQbg

For those who aren’t crafty, but want to get their game on, let’s do it!

Every other Monday, while the crafters make things, we’ll also have a game of Sentinels of the Multiverse going. Up to four people at each table, playing as heroes working together to battle the Multiverse’s worst villains in some of the strangest locations! Every session, a different group will work together – will you join us?

Every other Monday, join a group at House Rules Cafe for a session of crafting and discussion on our favorite topics! Be it nerdery, books, movies, local events, national events, or personal events, anything is up for grabs.

All crafting is welcome and encouraged! We’ll put down dropcloths for any potentially messy activity.

Every Friday evening, join us for an hour, or for many hours! We invite one and all to come on your own, with a group, or with a new friend, for the sole purpose of playing games (and maybe drinking a sake or two). Our normal, $5/person fee will apply, but it will also get you a soda, coffee, or tea.

We have demos planned, sometimes fun, fast, and easy, sometimes classics like Catan or Carcassonne, and sometimes the heavier games like Terraforming Mars, Energy Empire, or Stone Age.

If you’re new to gaming, or want to bring your own game to demo, this is your time!